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The Canadian Space Agency is preparing to launch its SciSat satellite this summer from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. In preparation, CSA is holding a technical briefing for media on […]

An online survey of XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR] subscribers conducted March 21-24 found that the war in Iraq has caused a 52 percent jump in subscribers tuning to news […]

PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] has received regulatory approval to operate its PAS 9 satellite in Brazil from Anatel, the government agency that regulates all telecom services in Brazil. The regulatory clearance […]

April 29 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST “From Broadcast to Broadband: Seizing The Next Satellite Business Opportunity?” A Webinar presented by Interspace Register at http://www.telecomweb.com/satellite/webinar.htm

A = Analogue D = Digital 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D Yes TV has returned to 3475 MHz vertical, SR 3298, FEC 3/4, VPID 4132, APID 4133 in free-to-air MPEG-2 […]

For MTV Networks Europe, the French market could be a key barometer of its success in 2003. The channel provider, one of the largest in Europe, increased advertising revenues by […]

International Launch Services (ILS) is turning up the heat on launch service powerhouse Arianespace this year. The provider, which usually secures around 40 to 50 per cent of satellite launch […]

French satellite operator Eutelsat estimates that its new multimedia satellite platform in Turin, Italy, will generate 10 million euros ($10.63 million) in revenue over the next two years. The platform, […]

Malaysia’s Binariang Satellite Systems and Boeing Satellite Systems, a unit of Boeing, have signed a contract for the procurement of a high-power communications satellite. The new Boeing 601HP satellite, designated […]

Dutch satellite communications company New Skies Satellites has named Jurandir M. Pitsch as sales director for its commercial activities in Brazil and the Mercosur region of Latin America. Pitsch will […]

John Scelfo, Sirius Satellite Radio’s chief financial officer, is leaving the U.S.-based satellite radio provider April 6 to join a company outside the satellite industry. Scelfo played a key role […]

By Bertold Heil In the autumn of 2002, our analysis came to the conclusion that the German pay-TV market’s potential can only be harvested by an investor with deep pockets […]

SES Global, the world’s largest satellite operator, had disappointing profits for 2002. Its profits declined by over 27 per cent to 204.5 million euros ($216.0 million) in 2002, compared to […]

In 2002, AsiaSat saw its revenues decline slightly to HK$951 million ($122 million) from HK$969 million ($124.3 million) in 2001. Profits also dipped to HK$555 million ($71.2 million) from HK$563 […]

The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) is unlikely to reverse its decision to broadcast its eight TV channels unencrypted on BSkyB, a UK satellite broadcasting affiliate of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. […]

In the March 24 issue of SATELLITE TODAY, we incorrectly identified the MEASAT-3 as an Indonesian satellite. In fact, it is a Malaysian satellite. MEASAT stands for Malaysia- East Asia […]

STMicroelectronics [NYSE: STM], supplier of set-top box (STB) chips and MPEG-2 decoders, has introduced a new Omega STB decoder product – the STi5517. Suitable for use in cable, terrestrial and […]

SkyFrames [OTC Bulletin Board: BEYI], a provider of satellite broadband Internet services, has joined forces with Advantage Associates, a firm that specializes in assisting clients in governmental, political and international […]

Discovery Communications has signed a multi-transponder agreement with SES Americom, a unit of SES Global, to lease C-band capacity on AMC-10 and AMC-11, the company’s successor satellites to Satcom C-3 […]

SkyWaves Research Report estimates that XM Satellite Radio’s [Nasdaq: XMSR] total number of subscribers will reach between 490,000 to 500,000 by the end of the first quarter and 1.24 million […]

iSECUREtrac [OTC Bulletin Board: ISRE], a provider of Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking products, has hired William R. Faresich as vice president of marketing and business development. He will be […]

International Launch Services (ILS) President Mark Albrecht told SATELLITE TODAY that the launch provider has high hopes for gaining an increasing share of orders in the U.S. government arena. “We […]

Integral Systems [Nasdaq: ISYS] has been awarded a contract with initial value of $4.7 million to upgrade the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s polar ground system to support the initial […]

Indonesia’s Binariang Satellite Systems and Boeing Satellite Systems, a unit of Boeing [NYSE: BA], have signed a contract for the procurement of a high-power commercial communications satellite. The new Boeing […]

The Maryland State Senate has removed the mandatory energy efficiency standards for direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and cable set-top boxes that was part of the proposed Maryland Energy Efficiency Standards […]

Satellite communications company New Skies Satellites [AEX, NYSE: NSK] has named Jurandir M. Pitsch as sales director for its commercial activities in Brazil and the Mercosur region of Latin America. […]

SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG], the world’s largest satellite operator, increased its revenues by 1.38 billion euros ($1.47 billion), or 38 percent, from 2001 to 2002. The company’s profit, however, dipped […]

John Scelfo, Sirius Satellite Radio‘s [Nasdaq: SIRI] chief financial officer, is leaving the company April 6 to join a company outside the satellite industry. Scelfo played a key role in […]

Programmers that were unable to re-negotiate contract terms with money-losing DirecTV Latin America may have lost leverage last week after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The question […]

The soaring cost of space insurance has convinced EchoStar Communications [SPOT] that buying coverage for its eight in-orbit satellites is not worth the price. According to documents filed with the […]